EGR Coolant Lines. HELP!

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SmittyFox5.0

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In building my "race car" I eliminated the entire HVAC system which obviously eliminated the heater core. Now I am wondering what I do about the lines that are supposed to run to the egr spacer. I got rid of the metal line that runs down the side of the lower intake and I believe that is where these rubber hoses tap into. Could I just run lines from the inlet and outlet on the water pump to run through the egr. From what I have read, it is not in my best interest to eliminate these lines alltogether. Give me your opinions.

 

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The rear hose attaches to a port on the lower intake directly vs. the metal tube you'd mentioned deleting. I've seen several dozen cars with the egr cooler deleted but I can't supply you with dyno sheets or professional testing results on whether or not to delete them.
Bump for ya.

 

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I have both of my egr coolant lines plugged up. Its been this way for 2 years. no problems whatsoever.

 

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The best thing to do is to cover the holes in the lower intake manifold when you replace the gasket. The lower intake manifold gasket kit I got had two little cutouts that you could stick in place to cover the passages in the heads that fed exhaust to the lower intake manifold.

Alternately, you could put a couple of layers of aluminum foil over the exhaust hole in the lower where it bolts to the upper. Use lots of blue silcone to seal things up if you do this

 

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I know that the 93 Cobra intake doesn't have coolent lines in the built in EGR spacer, so does anyone know if the coolent lines in the GT's EGR spacer really needed?

 

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18mustangs said:

I know that the 93 Cobra intake doesn't have coolent lines in the built in EGR spacer, so does anyone know if the coolent lines in the GT's EGR spacer really needed?

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My understanding is that the lines are there to cool down the EGR spacer (since it has exhaust passing through it) in order to help keep the air intake temps down a little.

Lots of people delete the lines, but I would not go out of my way to do so.

FWIW, I dont buy that it is there for throttle deicing - that would be a highly inefficient means of accomplishing this.